Goykānaḍī is an ancient script used in de territory of Goa. This script was awso cawwed kandavī.[1] This script was used to write Konkani and sometimes Maradi. Simiwarwy, it was used by de trading Saraswat and Daivajna famiwies awong wif de Modi script to maintain deir accounts.[1][2][3]

The inqwisition of Goa is seen as a bwot in de history of de Konkani wanguage. According to de orders of de Goa inqwisition it was an offence to remain in possession of books in de wocaw wanguages. Aww books, whatever deir subject matter, written in Konkani, Maradi and Sanskrit were seized by de inqwisition and burnt on de suspicion dat dey might deaw wif idowatry.
It is probabwe dat vawuabwe non-rewigious witerature deawing wif art, witerature, sciences, etc., were destroyed indiscriminatewy as a conseqwence. For instance, even before de inqwisition orders in a wetter dated 24 November 1548, D Fr Joao de Awbuqwerqwe proudwy reports his achievement in dis direction, uh-hah-hah-hah.[4]

Many Konkani manuscripts which are now found in museums in Portugaw are Roman transwiterations of Kandavi manuscripts of Hindu epics.[5][6] The earwiest document written in dis script is found in a petition addressed by Ravawa Śeṭī, a Gaunkar of Caraim in de iswands of Goa, to de king of Portugaw. This 15f-century document bears a signature in Konkani which says: Ravawa Śeṭī baraha (Transwation: writing of Ravawa Sedi).[3] It is bewieved dat most of de pre-Portuguese documents and books in Kandavi were burnt by de Portuguese missionaries.[4]